World: Iraq's Tigris River Yields Hundreds of Corpses

Tuesday, 10 October 2006

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"It's what many families do when they are looking for missing relatives," he said. "Terrorists dump the bodies in the river to terrify those who live and work along its banks."

Fisherman Mohammed Hussein told ABC News that he used to discover more than 10 bodies a day floating in the Tigris River where it flows by the Baghdad neighborhood of Al Rashdia.

"We used to fetch them out," he said, "but now there are so many we leave them. Otherwise, there would be no time for fishing."

At one point, work was disrupted at a nearby water filtering plant that provides Baghdad with drinking water when two corpses became stuck in the main pipeline.

"It was the most horrifying sight I had seen in my whole life," said Kareem Ali, an employee at the plant. "Flesh and blood mixed with water. I have [seen] dead animals before, but it was the first time I had seen human remains. It was horrible."

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